When the bell rings every morning from Monday to Friday the Senior Block lines up to get ready to run. Students have to run around the streets to keep themselves fit and to get us prepared for school cross country and inter-school cross country competition.
We line up into our class lines. We talk and talk until the teacher tells us to be quiet. Miss Ginders tells us when to go. Year five start followed by Years eight, seven and lastly year six. Students begin running delightfully.
Years five and six do two laps unless they are fast enough and do three like the years seven and eight. Teachers say that years seven and eight have to do three laps but some students do only two laps.
The students go for their first lap and they start off with a steady pace then they sometimes move on to a faster pace. Students run towards Mr Reid down to Mrs Buchanan and back up to Miss Ginders. When we get to Mrs Golder she says “Take off your jumpers”.
When some of the students who started last pass the years sevens and eights they sometimes feel embarrassed. When some of the year sixes pass us like Lupe we just cheer them on. We sometimes cheer on the people who do less running and more talking.
When students go for their second lap around they start to huff and puff because they are tired. Some students huff and puff because they talk too much. Other students don’t huff and puff because they go at steady pace and they also do less talking.
Some students get really annoyed with some of the students who run round them. Some students run furiously and some run pleasantly. Students dawdle when they don't run. Students sometimes run clumsily and some day-dream while they run.
When students reach the finish line everyone is happy they get to stop and rest. We were lucky we got to the finish line.
On Wednesday the 16th of September we had our School Cross-Country. The seniors had the opportunity to watch their sisters and brother run. Year five had to do two laps, years six and seven did three laps and years eight had to do four. When the teachers said that we had to do four laps we were really angry because we never tried four laps. It was much harder doing four laps on the day. After the four laps run year eight were really exhausted that they ran straight to the taps for a drink.
We all tried our best to come 1st, 2nd and 3rd but unfortunately only three students can go to the inter-schools. We enjoyed running as a school because we improved a lot from the other years.
Cross country starts
Ready Set GO
Overjoyed
Steady pace
Slow runners
Cheering for students
On the track
Up you get
No talking
Try your best don’t give up
Repeating fitness 5 times daily
Yay we have finished
